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Sophie W.'s avatar

Thanks for that eyebleach image.

"If no one has agreed that a war has started, how can they agree when it’s over?"

I feel like you've hit upon a big problem with two-party politics and all of this "increasing divide in our country" rigamarole. Instead of being two primary facets of our country sort of floating in a soap of political opinions, pushing and pulling against each other, the language and urgency being used is the language of an all out war. If you don't fight now, you won't have a country to go back to. I'm not sure it's completely wrong, especially not when a Trump presidency could mean a Supreme Court supermajority, but still. It does get the troops rallied, but when did we become troops?

Did you ever watch that hbomber guy war on christmas video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZo4x0NbbI

I really feel that that JD Vance is a just a more well-spoken version of these far-right conspiracists. These culture wars have been going on for a while, they've just been promoted from fringe extremism to part of the Republican Presidential platform. Unfortunately.

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Wil Wiener's avatar

I'll check out the video. And Vance is just a mirror of those people you're discussing. 6 years ago he called Trump a modern Hitler. What changed? Did his values change? Or was he always just saying whatever it took to win?

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